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Causal models : how people think about the world and its alternatives / Steven Sloman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sloman, Steven A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--Mathematical models.
- Psychology.
- Causation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- How people think about the world and its alternatives
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sloman offers a conceptual introduction to key mathematical ideas, focusing on the intuitions rather than the theorems. He tries to show why the ideas are important to understanding how people explain things, & why it is central to human action to think not only about the world as it is, but also about the world as it could be.
- Contents:
- Agency and the role of causation in mental life
- The information is in the invariants
- What is a cause?
- Causal models
- Observation versus action
- Reasoning about causation
- Decision making via causal consequences
- The psychology of judgment : causality is pervasive
- Causality and conceptual structure
- Categorical induction
- Locating causal structure in language
- Causal learning
- Causation in the mind.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988474-9
- 0-19-987095-0
- 1-280-42861-9
- 1-60256-568-6
- 9786610428618
- 0-19-804037-7
- 1-299-38582-6
- 0-19-972840-2
- OCLC:
- 191038461
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